Fighting airport congestion, joining long security queues, and being packed into cattle cars with wings, today’s airline passengers must sometimes wonder how the privileged few fly:…
Author: Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel has spent thirty years working at JFK International and LaGuardia airports with the likes of Capitol Air, Midway Airlines, Triangle Aviation Services, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Lufthansa in Ground Operations and Management. He has created and taught aviation programs on both the airline and university level, and is an aviation author.
The short, stubby control tower indicated that this was a controlled airfield and that it provided takeoff and landing clearances. The long, white Passenger Terminal failed…
Although Grumman was principally a supplier of fighters to the US Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, it nevertheless found limited airline application for its amphibious G-21…
Ripe, Florida soil, implanted with the right seed at the right time, tended by the optimum gardeners, and fertilized with deregulation, can spur tremendous airline growth…
Some airlines reflect their country, state, geographical region, and even airport of origin in their names. One reflected its city in both name and logo: New…
If there were an aviation equivalent to a Catch-22 situation, then Long Island MacArthur, a secondary or reliever airport to La Guardia and JFK, struggled with…
Many local service carriers, flying to small communities, improved their image with jet aircraft and harnessed deregulation’s freedom to maintain a rapid pace to profitability. Piedmont…
It was the first and, at the time, the largest. It coined terms such as “widebody,” “twin aisle,” “upper deck,” “high bypass ratio turbofan,” and “jumbo…
The First Ozark Many airlines, especially during the early years of aviation, planted seeds in parts of the country that became their hubs and around which…
Airlines, through their structure, serve different market segments. Some carry all passengers or all cargo. Some operate regional turboprops or widebody jets. Some are low-fare, and…